Col Stirling (12 results)

Hardcover in Dustjacket. Condition: Fine. Shelf wear to jacket. MILITARY GENERAL S.A.S. -Half a century after his death, Lt Col. Robert Blair Mayne is still regarded as one of the greatest soldiers in the history of military special operations. He was the most decorated British soldier of the Second World War, receiving four DSOs, the Croix de Guerre, and the Legion d'honneur, and he pioneered tactics used today by the SAS and other special operations units worldwide. Rogue Warrior of the SAS tells the remarkable life story of "Colonel Paddy," whose exceptional physical strength and uniquely swift reflexes made him a fearsome opponent. But his unorthodox rules of war and his resentment of authority would deny him the ultimate accolade of the Victoria Cross. Drawing on personal letters and family papers, declassified SAS files and records, together with the Official SAS Diary compiled in wartime and eyewitness accounts, this is the true story of the soldier.First Edition Hardcover. pp. 256 illusts #241225 SCARCE Elizabeth's Bookshops have been one of Australia's premier independent book dealers since 1973. Elizabeth's family-owned business operates four branches in Perth CBD, Fremantle (WA), and Newtown (NSW). All orders are dispatched within 24 hours from our Fremantle Warehouse. All items can be viewed at Elizabeth's Bookshop Warehouse, 23 Queen Victoria Street\, Fremantle WA.

Condition: Good. 1954. 4th Impression. 251 pages. Pink pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth. From the personal library of previous owner, with expected ownership plates and inscriptions. Pages are lightly tanned at the edges, with light foxing. Occasional thumb marks to pages edges. Binding has remained firm. Boards have slight shelf wear with bumping to corners. Spine ends are a little crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges. Light wear to unclipped dust jacket with tears, nicks and creases to spine, edge and corners. Light tanning to spine and edges.

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. This is a Very Good Copy of this Book in Publisher's red coloured cloth with bright gilt title lettering to spine,in a Very Good Dust-Jacket that is sun faded to spine.The wrapper though has still got it's original and scarce wrap round band in yellow with recommendations from Sassoon and Liddle Hart.Not Price clipped and the book has NO former owner's names present.The binding remains firm with no hinge weakness.The author's account of his Army service from the Boer War, with the Egyptian Army in the Sudan in the early 1900s, Gallipoli and Palestine during WW1, the Middle East and the Balkans between the Wars, and Palestine and Syria during WW2.8vo 251pp First Edition 2nd Impression [1953].

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. 1st. First edition hardback, 1953, with no jacket. Ex library book, only a couple of the usual stamps and marking, rear endpaper removed, rebound into library hardback boards. In overall good-to-very good used condition with minor signs of age, handling and storage - boards a touch rubbed with a couple of small marks. Binding tight and appears little read. Internally clean, no annotation or inscriptions; toning to page-ends but text and illustrations bright and clear throughout. Photographs available.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. Fourth Impression. Fourth Impression. Frontispiece portrait and plates. Pp. [viii], 251. 1 vols. 8vo. Lawrence's Chief Staff Officer in Arabia. Stirling's work describes the areas he served both as soldier and later administrator including South Africa, Malta, Egypt, the Sudan, the Palestine Campaign, Arab Revolt, the Balkans and Syria, his service extending from 1899 until Syria with the Ninth Army in 1945. O'Brien F0998; Baxter "Annoted Checklist.Lawrence" XIV 13 "a fascinating book that should be better known" Lawrence's Chief Staff Officer in Arabia. O'Brien F0998; Baxter "Annoted Checklist.Lawrence" XIV 13 "a fascinating book that should be better known" Blue cloth. Fine in almost fine dj Frontispiece portrait and plates. Pp. [viii], 251. 1 vols. 8vo.

2nd imp. dust jacket Nice Copy 8vo. viii + 251pp., frontis., b/w plates, appends., index, Autobiography of a remarkable imperialist, who served in South Africa & Syria and was much admired by Kipling & T. E. Lawrence with whom he entered Damascus. Dust jacket sunned at spine o/w a nice copy.

2. London, Sotheby's, 1979, stapled in-8°. With results and buyer's name.